I think it’s time for another review of one of the ape’s things. This time it’s about a little electronic toy that lets you enjoy your iPod music in your car.

In my old car I had a built in solution called Dension iceLink. It worked pretty good, since you could control the device with the buttons on the steering wheel, but it was way too expensive. This time I thought I’m smart buying a replaceable device. I’ve heard about iTrip, which lets you hear the iPod music over the radio. After some research I found the Griffin RoadTrip as a better choice, since it has a holder and recharges your iPod while you using it. Good idea, bad implementation.

First of all: You need to have the device plugged into the car cigar jack to use it. It just doesn’t work without it. I know charging without beeing plugged in would be a littlebit impossible, but sending the radio signals couldn’t possibly use that much energy. The iTrip works without plugging too …

Second: The holder. It’s just not made for stable holding of the system. It’s huge, unhandy und tends to bend over to one side … not very safe while you are driving and the thing suddenly falls on your gearstick.

Third: The quality of the sound is a littlebit below radio quality. I could live with that, because I’m not a musician and don’t really hear differences between radio sound and mp3-sound … especially in a car. But I think it should be mentioned here.

The only good thing is: it works. You plug in any kind of iPod (even the 6th generation works), push play on the ipod, set up a frequency on the device and on your car stereo and enjoy the music. If this is worth the price … I don’t think so. I hope, next iPod generation comes with bluetooth and lets you control it via your car stereo.